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Kaur ( Punjabi: ਕੌਰ[needs Punjabi IPA] [ Gurmukhi] / کور [ Shahmukhi ]; lit. 'crown prince [ss]' or 'spiritual prince [ss]' ), [ 1] sometimes spelled as Kour, is a surname or a part of a personal name primarily used by the Sikh and some Hindu women of the Punjab region. [ 2] It is also sometimes translated as 'lioness', not because ...
Sikhs have a given name and one or both of a surname and a Khalsa name. The surname may be a family name (based on the name of the ancestral village) or a caste name. Different castes still exist today in some aspects of Punjabi culture; similarly to the Hindu caste system, this system is based on employment [citation needed] (ex. jatt signifies the farming caste).
Male Sikhs generally have Singh (' lion ') as their last name, though not all Singhs are necessarily Sikhs; likewise, female Sikhs have Kaur (' princess ') as their last name. These unique last names were given by the Gurus to allow Sikhs to stand out and also as an act of defiance to India's caste system , which the Gurus were always against.
Bebe Nanaki (1464–1518) is known as the first Sikh. She was the elder sister of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder and first Guru (teacher) of Sikhism. Bebe Nanaki was the first to realize her brother's spiritual eminence. Sri Chand ( ਸ੍ਰੀ ਚੰਦ ) (1494–1629) [ 59] was the first son of Guru Nanak, raised by his sister.
Punjabi Sikhs are the second-largest religious group of the Punjabis, after the Punjabi Muslims. They form the largest religious community in the Indian state of Punjab. Sikhism is an indigenous religion that originated in the Punjab region of South Asia during the 15th century. Almost 97% of the world's Sikh population are Punjabis.
v. t. e. Sikhism ( / ˈsiːkɪzəm / SEEK-iz-əm ), [ 7] also known as Sikhi ( Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ Sikkhī, [ˈsɪk.kʰiː] ⓘ, from Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, romanized: Sikh, lit. 'disciple'), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy [ 8] that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE. Sikhism is ...
The Sikh Confederacy is a description of the political structure, of how all the barons' chiefdoms interacted with each other politically together in Punjab. Although misls varied in strength, the use of primarily light cavalry with a smaller amount heavy cavalry was uniform throughout all of the Sikh misls.
Sahib Singh (Gurmukhi: ਸਾਹਿਬ ਸਿੰਘ) (16 February 1892 – 29 October 1977) was a Sikh academic who made a contribution to Sikh literature. He was a grammarian, author, scholar and theologian. He was born in a Hindu family to father Hiranand and was named Natthu Ram. [3]